Clinton ignored the War Powers Resolution during the 1999 NATO bombing campaign. He ignored the Resolution’s 60-day limit without formal congressional authorisation and ignored the fact congress voted against the declaration of war. The subsequent Campbell v. Clinton case had the federal appeals court ultimately dismiss the lawsuit, ruling that members of Congress lacked the legal standing to sue the President over his war-making actions, neutering the War Powers Resolution.

So yeah prepare for this to mean nothing.

Are you guys not using a FOSS Lemmy client? Try Voyager. Half the reason I’m on this platform is to avoid ads

Thanks @TaylorSwiftsHemorrhoid

Nothing better than showering after coming home from a shift and washing off the filth from the day. When the hot water hits your back. pacha-meme.gif

From an Guardian article in Oct 2025, roughly 5 years into the first statewide phone ban in Australia:

One year after the ban was implemented, a survey of almost 1,000 public school principals led by the NSW Department of Education’s Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation found that 95% of principals still supported the ban. Eighty-one per cent said the ban has improved students’ learning, 86% said it has improved socialisation among students and 87% believed students were less distracted in the classroom.

Research from South Australia – released in March this year – revealed 70% of teachers reported increased focus and engagement during learning time and 64% of teachers reported “a lower frequency of critical incidents” at school as a result of device use.

Ruqayah, who graduated from a western Sydney high school in 2024, thinks the bans were an “overreaction”. After going through high school with access to phones, she finished her final year with the phone ban in place and says fellow students were still finding ways to use them in secret. “Teenagers find their phones very important,” she says. “It makes them feel secure and safe, so taking away something that is important to them just causes more stress and more worry which makes situations worse at school and harder for teachers, supervisors [and] support workers to deal with.”

Prof Neil Selwyn from the School of Education, Culture and Society at Monash University. “Some politicians were promising improvements in student learning and mental health. But one of the main drivers of these bans was undoubtedly that they were popular.”

Selwyn says phone bans in Australia were not set up “with the intention of properly testing their effectiveness” and says concrete research in this area is “inconclusive, and … not particularly rigorous”.

He also believes the latest government data from NSW and South Australia is “not particularly insightful”.

“The key question is how these bans play out over time,” he says. “Claiming that these bans are suddenly leading to dramatic improvements makes for a neat political soundbite, but we need a lot more in-depth and sustained investigation of what effects these bans are actually having.

World Scariest Police Chases might have been the last game I ever got for my PS1. Loved just cruising around the open world.

I still don’t know what story she was denying. What were the images that she was saying were fake?

Everyone should check out Need for Speed: Underground 2 Last Breath. This is a completely modded version including high resolution texture replacement while keeping the vanilla look of the game but increases the quality along with an upscaled HUD.

He just requested an additional trillion dollars in military spending. What a fucking fraud.

Thanks Trump

This might be the highest res version of this meme I’ve seen

“It’s called consolidation; strengthen governments and corporations, weaken individuals. With reboots, this can be done imperceptibly over time.”

The worst part is, even if someone spends a decade putting the furniture right, the US will emerge right back at where they started with no material improvements made to the lives of people and they will be clamoring for another ‘Trump will fix it’ style campaign. Hard to see how anyone could pull the country out of its current death spiral.

I love upvoting this meme

Cuba will be next.

It was always a marketing gimmick, a cynical opportunistic fabrication developed by ad men using the language of the civil rights era to sell consumer electronics, using the profits to shamelessly supply capital to those who work to undo the gains won by the movements they exploit.

When being against fascism gets you charged as a terrorist, you live in a fascist regime.

“The point of propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”

How’s the PDF formatted, is it optimised for print? Because Canva has pretty fucking sloppy output normally.